Angelica Gorrio, a Democrat, is running for the Stamford Board of Education.

Angelica Gorrio, a Democrat, is running for the Stamford Board of Education.

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David Mannis

David Mannis

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Ligia Marroquin

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Stamford Board of Education elections: What you need to know

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STAMFORD — The Board of Education and the Stamford public schools are at a crossroads for this year’s election on Nov. 3. Five of the nine seats on the board are up for re-election, the superintendent is retiring Dec. 30, and the fallout from the June 2014 arrest of a Stamford High School teacher for having sex with a student continues.

The current board has been in a constant state of turmoil since October 2014, when the principal of Stamford High was arrested and charged with failing to report the sexual relationship to authorities, along with an assistant pricipal.

Now, of the 13 candidates vying for those seats, only one is an incumbent, and she is running without her party’s backing.

The Advocate sent a 10-part questionnaire to each candidate in September, asking their positions on key issues facing the district. Their answers will be published each Sunday in the run-up to the election. You can read all of them and continuing coverage of the election below.

The Advocate encourages readers to leave comments about the candidates’ positions, or pose a question of your own, either in the comments section at the bottom of this page, or by emailing them to localnews@scni.com.